QuoteNEW YORK (AP) — The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrives Saturday night as our celestial neighbor passes closer to Earth than usual.
But don't expect any "must-have-been-a-full-moon" spike in crime or crazy behavior. That's just folklore.
Saturday's event is a "supermoon," the closest and therefore the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. At 11:34 p.m., the moon will be about 221,802 miles from Earth. That's about 15,300 miles closer than average.
That proximity will make the moon appear about 14 percent bigger than it would if the moon were at its farthest distance, said Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory. The difference in appearance is so small that "you'd be very hard-pressed to detect that with the unaided eye," he said.
The moon's distance from Earth varies because it follows an elliptical orbit rather than a circular one.

I'm ready! My SX40 and the Dolica tripod I got for Christmas is waiting in the wing.
They are calling for rain so that might hamper things but we need rain so bad I'm
not going to complain about it. I'm going to do a lot of experimentation with settings.
I'm definitely going to be using my shutter timer.

QuoteKen Sp.
With the $299 deal at Fry's, I have now drank the Kool-Aid.

Does anyone have suggestions for a protective lens filter?

It looks like I need an adapter, then a 67mm filter, the npossibly a new lens cap?

What kind of filter, circular polarizing?

Thanks.

Additionally, in case you didn't read between the lines, a stock 52mm filter will work in the interim. I have 52mm's in every flavor (and then some) from the Nikon film days, and they work OK. I tend to shoot fairly well zoomed, so I haven't noticed any vignetting. The Lensmate is the way to go for the long haul, *but* neither a direct 52mm filter or the Lensmate adapter for the SX40 is as good as the Lensmate's screw on tube version adapter for the earlier megazooms.

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